How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er,And watched the daylight passing within her captive
wall,With no-one to heed her call.

The evening hour is fading within the dwindling sun,And in a lonely moment
those embers will be goneAnd the last of all the young birds flown.

Her days of precious freedom, forfeited long
before,To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door,But those days will last no more.

Tomorrow at this
hour she will be far away,Much farther than these islands,Or the lonely Fotheringay

.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, born at Linlithgow, 8 December, 1542, She was the only legitimate child of James V of Scotland.
Mary was imprisoned for 21 years in the castle of Fotheringhay by Queen Elizabeth I for conspiring to overthrow Elizabeth
and was executed there, in 1587.